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Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self

Be the best you can be' urge self-help books and makeover TV shows, but what kind of self is imagined as needing a makeover and what kind of self is imagined as the happy result? Drawing on recent sociology and psychology, this book explores the function of slummy mummies, headless zombies and...

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Main Author:	Raisborough, J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Edition:	1st ed. 2011.
Subjects:	Anthropology. Ethnology. Culture. Culture—Study and teaching. Communication. Sociology. Cultural Anthropology. Sociology of Culture. Regional and Cultural Studies. Social Anthropology. Media Research.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230297555

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